My Hamer 'Jeff Ament' 12 String Bass
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Here's a quick pic of my Hamer 12 string bass. Hamer simply refer to it as the Jeff Ament Bass. These never went into production and were made specifically for Jeff Ament. I'll get round to taking some better pictures of the bass itself soon.
Hamer custom made a handful of these to Jeff's specific spec back in the Ten days, of which Jeff owns one of those few made. This is one of those others that were made, not to be confused with a few Hamer made in the mid/late nineties for custom orders as those ones resembled Jeff's but didn't have the boomerang inlays or the dark rosewood neck and more importantly didn't have the custom textured paint finish that Jeff's has.
As a huge Pearl Jam fan, and collector, but also a bassist as my profession, i was shocked when this came in my path. I've always been fascinated with Jeff's original custom Hamer 12 and 8 string basses. It's the bass famous for creating a lot of those early sounds on the first two albums especially. Most notably, Jeremy (of course), Why Go, Deep, Go, Leash, Lukin etc.
Hope some of you find this interesting
It's not everyday you see one of these and to be honest apart from Jeff's own, this is the only one I have ever seen.
Hamer custom made a handful of these to Jeff's specific spec back in the Ten days, of which Jeff owns one of those few made. This is one of those others that were made, not to be confused with a few Hamer made in the mid/late nineties for custom orders as those ones resembled Jeff's but didn't have the boomerang inlays or the dark rosewood neck and more importantly didn't have the custom textured paint finish that Jeff's has.
As a huge Pearl Jam fan, and collector, but also a bassist as my profession, i was shocked when this came in my path. I've always been fascinated with Jeff's original custom Hamer 12 and 8 string basses. It's the bass famous for creating a lot of those early sounds on the first two albums especially. Most notably, Jeremy (of course), Why Go, Deep, Go, Leash, Lukin etc.
Hope some of you find this interesting
It's not everyday you see one of these and to be honest apart from Jeff's own, this is the only one I have ever seen. London 29-10-96, London 29/30-5-00, London 20-4-06, Reading 27-8-06, London 18-6-07, London 11-8-09, London 18-8-09, London 25-6-10, Berlin 30-6-10 / PJ20 3/4-9-11, Manchester 20-6-12, Amsterdam 26/27-6-12, EV-London 30/31-7-12, EV-Orlando 27-11-12
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what do you use for the lighter strings? normal 12-string guitar strings?
are they tuned like an actual 12 string guitar? or i would imagine ALL of them would be an octave higher? (or more?)
really no clue how a 12string bass is supposed to work.
FUCKING SWEET though.
What jackaninny gave that up?
no respect. no respect.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
I'll try explain how it works... Same principle as a four string bass, but you have 4 sets of 3 strings very close together. The lowest (thicker) strings are tuned the same as any four string bass.
On an EIGHT string bass, you have a thinner string next to each thick string an octave higher, so when you play a note you are actually hitting two string together (the low octave and the high octave), but with a 12 string bass you have two thin strings next to every thick string both tuned to the same high octave.
JEFF HARDY AND JEFF AMENT USED TO LOOK THE SAME
"Pearl Jam always eases my mind and fires me up at the same time.”-Jeff Hardy
SEE MY BAND IN ACTION (WITH A HAMER 12 STRINGS - MODEL CHAPARRAL)
JEREMY, BY BLAYMORPHED - PEARL JAM cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obKdtzL2OYc
hugs AND CONGRATULATIONS
www.pearljamcoverbrasil.com
Assuming that is you, whatever happened the bass (and how is your baby doing)? I would love to pick up one of these. Considering modifying a standard B12-A as a last resort.
BTW, are you on Talkbass? If so, look me up. I'm GrizzleTone over there.
Cheers!